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Carolyn Edy
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Journalism professor at Appalachian State, media historian, dog catcher, Canadian-American

Author: The Woman War Correspondent, the U.S. Military & the Press bit.ly/woman-warco

Co-Author: The Weekly War https://bit.ly/Weekly-War
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Full text of the articles of impeachment.
April 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Two weeks ago I reported that Key Bridge survivors and victims' families were shut out of the Baltimore Community Foundation's $16M relief fund. This afternoon the foundation announced a $1.2M donation for the families.

www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...
Key Bridge families get $1.2M donation after funding controversy
The Baltimore Community Foundation donated $1.2 million to help the families of the six workers who died in the Key Bridge disaster, Mayor Brandon Scott said Tuesday afternoon.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I’m in the U.S., heading to the grocery store and tempted to start turning everything upside down
THIS IS WHAT A TRADE WAR LOOKS LIKE -
April 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Still going. No fooling.
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
youtube.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Some of us had a hard time not falling for April Fool’s Day even before 2025
April 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Our journalism alumni give me hope: These four, from New York Times, Chattanooga Times, Fayetteville Business Journal and WNEM TV5, spoke to Appalachian State students during a recent Zoom panel.

Thank you, Makaelah Walters, Ben Sessoms, Faith Hatton and Anna Kathman!
March 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Seizure by executive command, without due process and without judicial review, undermines the whole rest of a constitutional system. Preventing it is the core purpose of the separation of powers and the key distinction between constitutional and unconstitutional systems. tinyurl.com/JTLSepPow
March 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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"Local newsrooms that are able to activate the 'local psyche' rather than the national, partisan psyche have a better shot at supporting a substantive exchange of ideas." www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/how-...
How can we reach beyond the local news choir? Spotlight PA’s founding editor has ideas
In the wake of the 2024 election, where “democracy” was not a top issue for most voters, local news messaging focused on democracy may not suffice to build the broad coalition essential to give local ...
www.niemanlab.org
March 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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It’s not the biggest EO, and unlike some it won’t kill or imprison people, and yet in its explicit appeal to white supremacy, and noting thr unease I feel now writing that publicly, I find this one of the most chilling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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The National Trust for Local News, as its own leaders have said, has multiple contradictions built into its core mission. It’s a national org championing local news; it’s pursuing conservation AND transformation of local newspapers; it’s a nonprofit, and it’s a $50 million media business. (1/3)
March 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
One thing I haven't seen said about the Signal security breach -- maybe because there's soooo much else to say ...

This is why you don't rely on a team of inexperienced strangers, all too busy pretending they know what they're doing to dare ask who else is in the room and why
March 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Perhaps the idea is to streamline the agency and to make it more efficient by focusing it on people Trump doesn’t like.

Maybe it will be renamed the Internal Retribution Service.
March 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
Trump’s trying to gut funding for libraries: you can fight back with ALA.

The President's executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum & Library Services would be deeply harmful. We need to speak out.

Take action NOW: tell Congress to protect library funding.
bit.ly/ProtectLibraryFunding
March 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
March 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
1973: "Divided in three like a circus. Ring one, Executive,
Two is Legislative, that's Congress. Ring three, Judiciary ... Each controls the other, you see, and that's what we call checks and balances"

2025: "Gonna have a three-ring circus"

youtu.be/-EISWIY9bG8?...
Three Branches of Government School House Rock
YouTube video by t bro
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March 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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New from me —>

Wired's un-paywalling of stories built on public data is a reminder of that data’s role in the information ecosystem

www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/wire...
Wired’s un-paywalling of stories built on public data is a reminder of its role in the information ecosystem
Trump's wholesale destruction of the information-generating sectors of the federal government will have implications that go far beyond .gov domains.
www.niemanlab.org
March 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released
International travelers concerned about President Donald Trump’s trade policies and bellicose rhetoric have been canceling trips to the United States, depriving the U.S. tourism industry of billions of dollars at a time when the economy has started to appear wobbly.
Nervous about Trump, international tourists scrap their U.S. travel plans
International tourists are canceling plans to visit the United States, with Canadians leading the way.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Journalists who frame what's happening in Washington as Republicans vs. Democrats instead of fascism vs. democracy are missing the most important story of their lives.
March 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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“At a time when many media outlets are cutting back on state government coverage, public media is increasing its journalism about how North Carolina state government is serving its citizens.”
www.niemanlab.org
March 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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WUNC is partnering with public media stations across the state to launch the North Carolina Newsroom, Capitol Bureau, a journalism collaboration expanding North Carolina state government news coverage for North Carolina audiences throughout the year.

www.wunc.org/wunc-updates...
WUNC Partners with Public Media Stations Statewide to Expand Government News Coverage
WUNC to lead North Carolina Newsroom, offers localized stories from the Legislative Building.
www.wunc.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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"There’s been a lot written about the crisis in the humanities. There’s been far less written about the humanities during a crisis."

For @insidehighered.com I wrote about how we've forgotten how the humanities kept us sane during an existential crisis.

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
How the humanities got us through the pandemic (opinion)
Michael J. Socolow asks if we have already forgotten how the humanities got us through the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.insidehighered.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Looking forward to this important event. Among the excellent speakers are reporters and editors from NYT, N&O -- and one of Boone's very own, Watauga Democrat editor & App State alumnus Moss Brennan
Let’s make sure the voices and perspectives of North Carolina movement journalists are represented at the NC News & Information Summit in Durham on March 12—register at bit.ly/ncsummitreg today!
March 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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March 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM